Bug#1112095: recastnavigation: removes symbol without SONAME bump

[bret curtis]

Another question for the group, it was suggested that another solution
instead of embedding recast into the repo. Is there a way to clone the repo
to a directory and tell cmake to use that for building?

Apparently buildd is network isolated, so our cmake fetch won't work. Or
has that changed recently?

Cheers,
Bret

On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM bret curtis <psi29a at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey gang!
>
> Thank you for the replies.
>
> We've (OpenMW) been contributing upstream but development seems to have
> stopped. We're still hopeful but with 26 open PRs, infrequent updates and
> lack of communication we're considering doing a fork of the project.
>
> I'll add the Breaks dependency and update the package names accordingly.
>
> We can still debate if it's worth having in Debian or as you said, just
> use the embedded recastnavigation.
>
> Cheers,
> Bret
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM Travis Wrightsman <travis at wrightsman.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Thanks for working on this Bret!
>>
>> For what it's worth, I am planning on reverting Godot back to its
>> embedded recastnavigation copy because this upstream recommends using it
>> this way [0] (which is supported by Debian policy [1]) and they
>> basically told me in the linked upstream bug report that they don't make
>> any ABI promises.
>>
>> Personally, it doesn't seem worth it to fight upstream by providing a
>> shared library for recast in Debian? On the other hand, they don't seem
>> to release that often, so maybe it isn't that much of a pain.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Travis
>>
>> [0]
>> https://github.com/recastnavigation/recastnavigation/blob/main/Docs/_2_BuildingAndIntegrating.md#building--integrating
>> [1]
>> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#embedded-code-copies
>>
>